One of first two local TV licences awarded to Grimsby
OFCOM has awarded its first two of a planned new generation of local TV licences – and one of them has gone to a Grimsby bidder.
Lincolnshire Living has been given a 12-year licence, along with a station in Brighton.
Ofcom said it will award further licences in the coming months and hopes some local TV services will be on air before the end of 2013.
The licences are the first to be awarded in the local TV project championed by former culture secretary Jeremy Hunt, often in the face of widespread scepticism about whether the services will be financially viable.
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The channels will broadcast on a so-called multiplex, a small amount of spectrum reserved for local TV broadcasting on digital terrestrial television.
Lincolnshire Living is an extension of the Grimsby-based Channel 7 local TV service currently available on Virgin Media.
Lia Nici, executive producer of Channel 7, said her 15-year-old channel proved that local TV can work and be financially viable. It is funded by the Grimsby Institute.
“This means that more people can get involved in local TV and in a bigger way than ever before,” she said.
Comments
by presscard
Friday, September 14 2012, 8:38PM
“THEAPPLE does not appear to have gone to the core of the matter. This new channel will be on free view and unlike channel 7 will not be restricted to what is happening in Grimsby and Cleethorpes. The new channel, when it gets its portion of the £40 million, and starts broadcasting next year will be covering events and reaching watchers in an area from Grimsby to Scunthorpe, Horncastle, Louth, and maybe beyond. This is something that has been needed in Lincolnshire since we lost Anglia TV and have been bombarded with news from North of the Humber.”
by THEAPPLE
Friday, September 14 2012, 11:06AM
“7 started with nothing and finished the same way,a friend of mine was making programs for 7 of local interest but no one ever saw them as they just carried on churning out the same programs as on day one”
by THEAPPLE
Friday, September 14 2012, 11:03AM
“start somewhere...7 were still broadcasting programs they had made on day one ,there is not enough going on in the town besides crime that would fill a whole day,a friend of mine was making programs for 7 which were either ignored ,forgotten ,or just not bothered with .”
by Emjay24
Friday, September 14 2012, 9:27AM
“This is great news for the area. Yes, Channel 7 may not have been brilliant in the past but everyone's got to start somewhere. How many of us did things perfectly the first time we tried to do them.....? And as far as I know it is independent & has nothing at all to do with the GT”
by ImmArthur
Thursday, September 13 2012, 8:49PM
“Please, please, purlease, don't let the GT Team have a TV channel. How many times could the normal human being bear endless repeats of ''Democracy and Transparency: We Thought About Them, But Decided Secrecy Is Best'', or
''In The Editor's Chair: Yes Mr. Shaw, No Mr Shaw'', or
''Great Railway Journeys: Cleethorpes to, er, well, Cleethorpes On A Dinky Little Train'', or
''The Ex-Property Files: The Truth Is Out There, But You've Gotta Look Pretty Damn Hard'', or
The remake of ''Yes, Minister'' -''Yes, Leader; No, Leader; Three Bags Full, Leader'', or
"One Hundred Reasons Why Britain Is Great'', remade as ''Two Reasons Why Meridian Park Is Great, But Can You Give Us A Few Minutes While We Think Of One?''
Ah Fnuk, now I'm bored and probably about to lose my privileges...
Aarthur, Immingham”
by THEAPPLE
Thursday, September 13 2012, 12:14PM
“dont get your hopes up,did you ever watch channel 7 ,they started to do news items,and then run them till it was history,it was people "playing" at being on telly.and where is 7 now...on the internet....where,.There were times when have tuned in the picture would be stuck for days ,why ...because there was no one in the "studio" it was all left to computers.”
by presscard
Thursday, September 13 2012, 11:55AM
“Great, we may, at last, get some local news on our TV screens before it's history. Lincolnshire is certainly a great place to be living in, and derserves this award of a local channel.”